Billboard 200: 9/1/12: 2 Chainz #1: 147k

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Hip Hop DX.com:

Current Albums:

Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 8/19/2012

#1. 2 Chainz - Based On A T.R.U. Story - 147,000 (147,000)

#3. Rick Ross - God Forgives, I Don't - 43,000 (322,000)

#4. Insane Clown Posse - Mighty Death Pop - 41,000 (41,000)

#22. Nas - Life Is Good - 15,000 (260,000)

#26. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded - 14,000 (627,000)

#32. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange - 11,000 (262,000)

#35. Kottonmouth Kings - Mile High - 10,000 (10,000)

#59. Maybach Music Group Presents... - Self Made, Volume 2 - 6,600 (216,000)

#64. Flo Rida - Wild Ones - 6,100 (80,000)

#69. Tyga - Careless World: Rise Of The Last King - 5,500 (284,000)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000. Each week, HipHopDX presents top albums in Hip Hop/related, and five notables.

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2 Chainz Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200
by Keith Caulfield, L.A. | August 22, 2012 11:00 EDT

Rapper 2 Chainz sees his debut studio album "Based on a T.R.U. Story" bow at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 147,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan. That's a slightly more robust figure than had initially been projected last week. By last Friday, some industry sources were thinking the set would sell between 130,000 to 140,000.

2 Chainz is the third act this year to start at No. 1 with a debut studio effort, following One Direction's "Up All Night" (chart dated March 31) and Jack White's solo bow "Blunderbuss" (May 12). The last hip-hop act to start at No. 1 with a debut studio set came on Nov. 26, 2011, when Mac Miller's "Blue Slide Park" opened in the penthouse (144,000).

2 Chainz' 'Based on a T.R.U. Story': Track-By-Track Review

Though "Based on a T.R.U. Story" is 2 Chainz's debut studio set, he's already notched 10 hit singles on the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart since first arriving in 2011. He initially dented the tally in early 2011 under his old stage name Tity Boi, before transitioning to 2 Chainz later that year.

Presently, he's spending his second week at No. 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs tally with the new album's current single "No Lie" (featuring Drake). It became his second No. 1 (and first as a lead act) after the collaboration track "Mercy" spent five nonconsecutive weeks at the top. ("Mercy" is credited to Kanye West, Big Sean, Pusha T, 2 Chainz.)

Last week's No. 1 album, the "Now 43" compilation, falls to No. 2 with 75,000 (down 32%) while Rick Ross' former No. 1, "God Forgives, I Don't," slips 2-3 with 43,000 (down 27%).

Rap duo Insane Clown Posse arrives at No. 4 with its latest studio effort, "Mighty Death Pop," selling 41,000. That matches the act's highest-rank on the chart, where both 2009's "Bang! Pow! Boom!" and 1999's "The Amazing Jeckel Brothers" both debuted and peaked. "Bang," the pair's last studio release, sold 50,000 in its first week.

PHOTOS: Gathering of the Juggalos 2012

Maroon 5's "Overexposed" benefits from Amazon MP3 as the set rises 11-5 with 36,000 (up 59%). The album was sale priced for $3.99 as the retailer's daily deal on Aug. 17. Justin Bieber's "Believe" also gains, jumping a slot to No. 6 (35,000; up 17%) while One Direction's "Up All Night" slips 8-7 (29,000; up 1%).

Adele's "21" (9-8; 26,000 - up 1%) spends its 78th consecutive week in the top 10, putting it into a three-way tie for third place for the longest run in the top 10. Def Leppard's "Hysteria" (1987-1989) and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (1983-1984) also spent 78 weeks in the top 10. The only albums with more weeks in the top 10 are Bruce Springsteen's "Born In the U.S.A." (84 between 1984 and 1986) and the soundtrack to "The Sound of Music" (109; 1965-1967).

As for the rest of the top 10 this week, Zac Brown Band's "Uncaged" drops 6-9 with 25,000 (down 20%) and Yellowcard's new "Southern Air" debuts at No. 10 with 23,000. For the latter, it is the highest charting set for the band since 2006's "Lights and Sounds" debuted and peaked at No. 5. The group then notched a No. 13 hit with "Paper Walls" (2007) and a No. 19 peak with "When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes" (2011).

Over on the Digital Songs chart, as previously reported, Taylor Swift debuts at No. 1 with "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," selling a whopping 623,000 downloads. It's the largest digital sales week ever for a song by a woman, and the second-best overall. Only the arrival of Flo Rida's "Right Round" (636,000 in 2009) was bigger.

Full Story: Taylor Swift's 'Never' Song Sets Female Digital Record

Speaking of Flo Rida, on this week's chart, his "Whistle" slips 1-2 with 199,000 (down 8%) to make room for Swift's No. 1-opener. Below Flo is fun.'s "Some Nights," which rises 5-3 (180,000; up 22%) and Maroon 5's "One More Night," climbing 7-4 (170,000; up 26%).

With the Olympics over, it's not surprising to see Phillip Phillips' "Home" tumble 2-5 with 161,000 (down 24%). The song was used during NBC's coverage of women's gymnastics, and was also heard during the network's pre-show that aired before the closing ceremony on Aug. 12.

Justin Bieber's "As Long As You Love Me" (featuring Big Sean) rises 8-6 (145,000; up 12%), Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" falls 3-7 (136,000; down 13%) and Owl City and Jepsen's "Good Time" climbs 9-8 (127,000; up 4%). Bringing up the rear is Cher Lloyd's "Want You Back" (10-9 with 125,000; up 7%) and Mumford & Sons' "I Will Wait" (4-10 with 102,000; down 34%).

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Aug. 19) totaled 5.25 million units, up 6% compared with the sum last week (4.96 million) and down 2% compared with the comparable sales week of 2011 (5.35 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 187.48 million, down 4% compared with the same total at this point last year (194.76 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 24.77 million downloads, up 3% compared with last week (24.03 million) and up 7% stacked next to the comparable week of 2011 (23.12 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 870.20 million, up 6% compared with the same total at this point last year (823.47 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2011 when: Game's "Red Album" started at No. 1 with 98,000 while Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Watch the Throne" fell 1-2 with 94,000.

www.billboard.com/news#/news/2-chainz-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-1007871552.story

[HolidayGuy]

Some numbers from Idol Chatter:

7. One Direction, Up All Night: 29,000 (+1%; 1.133 million)
17. Carrie Underwood, Blown Away: 18,000 (+15%; 707,000)
21. Soundtrack, Sparkle: 16,000 (+111%; 35,000)
35. Kelly Clarkson, Stronger: 10,000 (+81%; 900,000)
53. Various, Now That's What I Call Music! 42: 7,000 (-17%; 416,000)
77. Tyga, Careless World: 6,000 (+42%, 284,000) (#77 BB200)
89. Phillip Phillips, American Idol: 5,000 (-26%; 67,000)
126. Jennifer Lopez, Dance Again ... The Hits: 4,000 (-26%; 32,000)
138. David Archuleta, Begin: 4,000 (-68%; 14,000)
141. Scotty McCreery, Clear as Day: 3,000 (+42%; 1.103 million)
142. David Guetta, Nothing but the Beat: 3,000 (+5%; 368,000)
156. Civil Wars, Barton Hollow: 3,000 (+18%; 494,000)
179. Soundtrack, Rock of Ages: 3,000 (-19%; 188,000)
199. Aerosmith, Greatest Hits: 2,000 (+70%; 5.418 million)

OTHERS
Mandisa, What If We Were Real: 2,000 (-24%; 202,000)
Hollie Cavanagh, American Idol: Less than 1,000 (-11%; 11,000)
Mandisa, Remixed: Get Movin': Less than 1,000 (debut)
Casey Abrams, Casey Abrams: Less than 1,000 (-15%; 12,000)

[areyoureadytojump]

music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-aug-19-2012-albums-marley-top-151552860.html#more-2526

More than 18 years after it was first released, Bob Marley & the Wailers' Legend finally cracks the top 20 on The Billboard 200. Legend, the one reggae album that everybody owns, leaps from #38 to #18 in its 236th week on the chart. The uptick is due to two factors: being carried by Starbucks and buzz from the documentary Marley which opened in April. (Far more people meant to see the film than actually saw it. It grossed $1.4 million.)

Legend originally peaked at #54 in October 1984. It remained on the chart for 113 weeks. After that, it was considered a catalog title and was no longer eligible to compete on The Billboard 200. That changed in 2009, when a much-needed rule change allowed catalog albums to compete alongside current albums on The Billboard 200. The album reached a new peak, #26 in June 2011, and this week climbs to another new peak.

Legend is the 10th best-selling album of the Nielsen SoundScan era, with sales of 11,103,000 copies since 1991. Among greatest hits albums, it's second only to the Beatles' 1, which has sold 12,083,000 copies. Could Legend one day surpass 1 as the best-selling greatest hits album in Nielsen SoundScan history? Let's take a look. In the past five years, Legend has sold 1,892,000 copies, compared to 1,111,000 for 1. So Legend is closing the gap with the hit-studded Beatles collection. It may well surpass it, but it will probably take several years. (Let me remind you that the figure for Marley's album doesn't in any way count its first seven years of sales.)

Legend returns to #1 on the Top Catalog Albums chart for the first time since May 2010. This is the album's 112th week at #1 since 1991. That's more weeks on top than any other album. In fact, it's more than the two runners-up combined. They are Creed's My Own Prison, with 54 weeks at #1 on the catalog chart, and the Grease soundtrack, with 52 weeks on top.

Shameless Plug: Later today, we'll post a Chart Watch Extra in which I look at the 25 albums that have topped the catalog chart for 12 or more weeks since 1991. The list includes 11 greatest hits albums, three Christmas albums, two various-artists compilations and one movie soundtrack (the aforementioned Grease). Just one act appears twice on the list. You could guess and then find out for sure when we post this later today.

2 Chainz' first studio album, Based On A T.R.U. Story, enters The Billboard 200 at #1. It's the second debut album to reach #1 in 2012, following One Direction's Up All Night. It's the first debut album by a hip-hop artist to reach #1 since Mac Miller's Blue Slide Park scored in November. The album sold 61K digital copies, which puts it at #1 on Top Digital Albums.

2 Chainz, a rapper from College Park, Ga., has had the last two #1 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: "Mercy," a co-equal collaboration with Kanye West, Big Sean and Pusha T, and his own "No Lie," featuring Drake. 2 Chainz was also featured on Nicki Minaj's "Beez in the Trap," which was a top 10 R&B hit.

2 Chainz (real name: Tauheed Epps) first gained notice in 2007 as one-half of the hip-hop duo Playaz Circle. Supply & Demand debuted and peaked at #27 in November of that year.

The Fine Print: Jack White's first solo album, Blunderbuss, reached #1 in April. I didn't include him in the debut album discussion above because he was already well-known through his work in The White Stripes, the Raconteurs and The Dead Weather.

Insane Clown Posse seems to have an attraction to the #4 spot. All three of the hip-hop duo's top 10 albums have opened in that position. The current Mighty Death Pop!… follows 1999's The Amazing Jeckel Brothers and 2009's Bang! Pow! Boom!.

The full title of the current album is The Mighty Death Pop!; Smothered, Covered & Chunked; Freaky Tales; Mike E. Clark's Extra Pop Emporium. That's almost as wordy as some of Fiona Apple's titles, such as 1999's When The Pawn… (I'd show the whole title, but it would eat up all my space.)

Adele's 21 rebounds from #9 to #8. This is its 78th week in the top 10, which equals the mark set by Michael Jackson's blockbuster Thriller. Both albums spawned multiple #1 singles (two for Thriller, three for 21) and won the Grammy for Album of the Year. Only two albums have logged more weeks in the top 10 since Billboard merged its separate mono and stereo charts in August 1963. The Sound Of Music soundtrack leads with 109 weeks, from May 1965 to January 1968. Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A. is second with 84 weeks, from June 1984 to January 1986. Will Adele catch The Boss? Stay tuned. Will she catch Julie Andrews and cast? That seems like a long-shot, but we'll see.

Zac Brown Band's Uncaged drops from #6 to #9 in its sixth week. It returns to #1 on Top Country Albums after being dislodged last week by Colt Ford's Declaration Of Independence. This is the fifth week on top of the country chart for Uncaged, a total matched in 2012 by just two albums: Lady Antebellum's Own The Night (which had six weeks at #1 this year, on top of seven weeks at #1 in 2011) and Carrie Underwood's Swept Away (five weeks).

First-week sales for Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together Again" were as unambiguous as its title. The song sold 623K copies, which puts it behind only one song in digital history: Flo Rida's "Right Round," which sold 636K in its first week in February 2009. This enables Swift to set new records for the largest one-week digital sales by a female artist (eclipsing Ke$ha's "TiK ToK," which sold 610K in December 2009); by a country artist (eclipsing Swift's own "Love Story," which sold 360K in December 2008); and by any artist in 2012 (eclipsing "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra, which sold 542K in the week ending April 15). "We Are Never Ever…" debuts at #1 on Hot Digital Songs. Will it vault from #72 to #1 on the Hot 100? You'll find later today when I update the already-posted Chart Watch: Songs.

Here's the low-down on this week's top 10 albums.

The Top Five: 2 Chainz' Based On A T.R.U. Story debuts at #1 (147K)…Now 43 dips from #1 to #2 in its second week (75K)…Rick Ross' God Forgives, I Don't dips from #2 to #3 in its third week (43K).… Insane Clown Posse's The Mighty Death Pop debuts at #4 (41K). This is the duo's third top five album…Maroon 5's Overexposed rebounds from #11 to #5 in its eighth week (36K). This is its seventh week in the top 10.

The Second Five: Justin Bieber's Believe rebounds from #7 to #6 in its ninth week (35K). It has been in the top 10 the entire time…One Direction's Up All Night rebounds from #8 to #7 in its 23rd week (29K). This is its 22nd week in the top 10… Adele's 21 rebounds from #9 to #8 in its 78th week (26K). It has been in the top 10 the entire time…Zac Brown Band's Uncaged drops from #6 to #9 in its sixth week (25K). It has been in the top 10 the entire time…Yellowcard's Southern Air debuts at #10. This is the second top 10 album for the pop-punk band from Jacksonville, Fla. It follows Lights And Sounds (#5 in 2006).

Now that AmazonMP3 is no longer selling Frank Sinatra's Nothing But The Best for 99 cents, the album plummets from #3 completely off The Billboard 200. Sales dove from 40K to less than 2K. I guess people like a bargain.

Three other albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Elle Varner's Perfectly Imperfect drops from #4 to #22. Colt Ford's Declaration Of Independence drops from #5 to #20. Kidz Bop Kids' Kidz Bop 22 dips from #10 to #11.

Three acts debut in the top 15 with their highest-charting albums to date. Slightly Stoopid's seventh studio album Top Of The World debuts at #13. The pop-ska outfit first charted in 2005...Tamela Mann's third album Best Days debuts at #14. Mann, who is best known for her work with Tyler Perry, first charted in 2009…In This Moment's fourth studio album Blood debuts at #15. The Los Angeles "metalcore" group first charted in 2008.

The Sparkle soundtrack rebounds from #42 to #21 (its highest ranking to date) in its third week. It's #1 on Top Soundtracks for the third week. The soundtrack from the original Sparkle was the top-ranking soundtrack for 20 weeks in 1976. The reboot ranked #5 in its first weekend at the box-office, with a gross of $11.6 million. Whitney Houston, who co-stars in the current movie, was 12 when the original movie was released in April 1976.

Etta James' Enduring Soul debuts at #54. The album has quietly sold 80K copies since its release in 2005. (Starbucks is also carrying this album.) James first charted in 1961 with At Last! She died in January at age 73.

Linkin Park's 2000 album Hybrid Theory this week becomes the 20th album to top the 10 million mark in U.S. sales since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard in 1991. It's one of just seven albums that were released since Jan. 1, 2000 to have topped 10M. Eminem has two of them, which is more than anyone else: The Marshall Mathers LP (10,629,000) and The Eminem Show (10,098,000). The other four are The Beatles' 1 (12,083,000), *NSYNC's No Strings Attached (11,129,000), Norah Jones' Come Away With Me (10,859,000) and Usher's Confessions (10,017,000).

Jason Aldean's My Kinda Party this week becomes the first album by a male country solo artist to top the 500K mark in digital sales…Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side Of The Moon also tops the 500K mark in digital sales this week. It's the oldest album to reach that milestone, topping Bob Marley & the Wailers' 1984 release, Legend.

One Direction's DVD Up All Night: The Live Tour is #1 for the 12th week on Top Music Videos. It sold 10K copies this week, bringing its 12-week total to 267K. This is the first music video by a boy band to top the chart for 12 weeks since Backstreet Boys' Homecoming—Live In Orlando stayed on top for 20 weeks in 1999. It's the first video by any group or duo to remain #1 this long since Creed's Greatest Hits wound up a 14-week reign in August 2007.

The Expendables 2 was #1 at the box-office over the weekend. The original Expendables movie was #1 for two weekends in August 2010.

Coming Attractions: Trey Songz's Chapter V is expected to be next week's top new entry. Also due: DJ Khaled's Kiss The Ring, Lynyrd Skynyrd's Last Of A Dyin Breed, Owl City's The Midsummer Station, The Darkness' Hot Cakes and Dustin Lynch's Dustin Lynch.

[fran182]

I'm glad Yellowcard got that top 10! :)

[chartfreak]

No disrespect, but waiting for Adele to leave the top 10.

[Honeymoon]

Aug 22, 2012 11:19:26 GMT -5 chartfreak said:

No disrespect, but waiting for Adele to leave the top 10.

You've already waited 78 weeks, I'm sure you'll survive a few more weeks at this point

[Agent Yoncé]

Linkin Park's "HYBRID THEORY" becomes the 20th album to go SCAN diamond in the Soundscan era :)

[areyoureadytojump]

^It's already Diamond. It's the latest to cross the 10 million sold threshold.

Gold, Platinum and Diamond should be used only for RIAA certs.

500k sold, 1 million sold and 10 million sold should be used for SoundScan sales.

A little pet peeve of mine...

[pnobelysk]

A little ironic 21 will be the 21 st to pass 10 million.... It makes me sort of uncomfortable

[slicknickshady]

"Eminem has two of them, which is more than anyone else: The Marshall Mathers LP (10,629,000) and The Eminem Show (10,098,000)."

LEGEND

[ZAYN]

Aug 22, 2012 10:05:18 GMT -5 @gagalicious said:

Yellowcard's new "Southern Air" debuts at No. 10 with 23,000. For the latter, it is the highest charting set for the band since 2006's "Lights and Sounds" debuted and peaked at No. 5. The group then notched a No. 13 hit with "Paper Walls" (2007) and a No. 19 peak with "When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes" (2011).
and at 187.48 million, down 4% compared with the same total at this point last year (194.76 million).

TEEHEE

(From the Hits post)

Aug 21, 2012 19:12:54 GMT -5 ZAYN said:

Would be cool if Yellowcard trended up a little on soundscan and landed #10 :)

[areyoureadytojump]

No new RIAA certifications.

47 albums debut this week. 25 are re-entries.

[babydoll9711]

what about Pearl Jam's 10 that hasn't scaned 10,000,000 copies yet and is closer than 21 is

[areyoureadytojump]

Some sales figures are here on Twitter:

twitter.com/chartnews

[areyoureadytojump]

keelyskorner.com/category/soundscan/

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 8/19/12)

1) 2 Chainz – Based On A T.R.U. – 146,626
2) Various Artists – Now 43 – 75,179 (After 2 weeks – 186,600)
3) Rick Ross – God Forgives I Don’t – 43,406 (After 3 weeks – 322,161)

Other Debuts

4) Insane Clown Posse – Mighty Death Pop – 40,662
10) Yellowcard – Southern Air – 23,293
13) Slightly Stoopid – Top Of The World – 20,774
14) Tamela Mann – Best Days – 20,606
15) In This Moment – Blood – 20,187

[areyoureadytojump]

Aug 24, 2012 10:15:23 GMT -5 babydoll9711 said:

what about Pearl Jam's 10 that hasn't scaned 10,000,000 copies yet and is closer than 21 is

It's at ~9.967 million. About 3-4 months to go before it scans 10 million...

[badrobot]

What's Adele's current total now?

[areyoureadytojump]

^ ~9,700,000 million

300k more to go...

[badrobot]

So she'll do it by year-end most likely... A little bit less than 3 years from release to 10m. Pretty damn impressive.

[HolidayGuy]

^You mean a little bit less than two years. ;)

[areyoureadytojump]

*ahem*

[ListenToItTwice]

Aug 24, 2012 21:07:22 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

*ahem*

I was wondering what that meant what I thought it meant AND IT DOES

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Aug 22, 2012 10:32:58 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

Carrie Underwood's Swept Away (five weeks).

lol

[areyoureadytojump]

5.247 million albums were sold in the US last week.

2.064 million were digital albums.

3.183 million were physical albums.